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CHAPTER I THE TEMPLE THE Temple represents the external Universe. The Magician must take it as he finds it, so that it is of no par- ticular shape; yet we find written, Liber VII, vi, 2: "We made us a Temple of stones in the shape of the Universe, even as thou didst wear openly and I concealed." This shape is the Vesica Piscis; but it is only the greatest of the Magicians who can thus fashion the Temple. There may, however, be some choice of rooms; this refers to the power of the Magician to reincarnate in a suitable body.
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THE TEMPLE
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…ement of ideas. Ra-Hoor-Khuit. See "Liber Legis." Ruach. The intellect and other mental qualities. See 777, etc. Saliasrara Cakkra. "The Temple of Solomon the King-." See Equinox I\'. Sammasati. See " The Training of the Mind,'"' Equinox V, and " The Temple of Solomon,'' Equinox VIII. Also "Science and Buddhism,"' Crowley, Coll. Works, Vol. II. Saiikha-ra. See " Science and Buddhism." Sauna. See "Science and Buddhism." SepJiiroth. See " Temple of Solomon," Equinox W Shi?i. "A tooth." Hebrew letter = Sh, corresponds to Fire and Spirit. Shkui San…
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…simple form of magick, harmonized from many systems old and new, describing the various weapons of the Magician and the furniture of his temple. We shall explain to what each really corresponds, and discuss the construction and the use of everything. The Magician works in a Temple; the Universe, which is (be it remembered!) conterminous with himself.' In this temple a Circle is drawn upon the floor for the limitation of his working. This circle is ^ The holders of those keys have always kept very quiet about it. This has been especially necessa…
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…isdom, his word ; the Cup was his understanding, the vehicle of grace; the Sword was his reason; and the Pantacle shall be his body, the temple of the Holy Ghost. What is the length of this Temple? 117
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ii8 From North to South. What is the breadth of this Temple? From East to West. What is the height of this Temple? From the Abyss to the Abyss. There is, therefore, nothing movable or immovable under the whole firmament of heaven which is not included in this pantacle, though it be but " eight inches in diameter, and in thickness half an inch." Fire is not matter at all; water is a combination of elements; air almost entirely a mixture of elements; earth contains all both in admixture and in combination. So must it be with this Pantacle, the sy…
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…m," loth "emanation" of the Absolute. Mantrayoga. A practice to attain union with God by repetition of a sacred sentence. .Master of the Temple. One of grade 8" — 3". Fully discussed in Equinox. Microcosvi. Man, considered as an exact image of the Universe. Nephesch. The "animal soul"' of man. .\etzach. Victory, the 7th "emanation" of the Absolute. \ibbana. The state called, for want of a better name, annihilation. The final goal. .Xirvatta. See Nibbana. \u:t. See " Liber Legis." Paths. See y^y., and Equinox 11 and elsewhere. Perdurabo, Frater.…
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… succeed in breaking it; the Cup lest, wishing to touch it, they should defile it. Yet the sprinkling of its water not only purifies the Temple, but blesseth them that are without : freely must it be poured ! But let no one know your real purpose, and let no one know the secret of your strength. Remember Samson ! Remember Guy Fawkes ! Of the methods of increasing Understanding those of the Holy Qabalah are perhaps the best, provided that the intellect is thoroughly awake to their absurdity, and never allows itself to be convinced.' Further medi…
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…could not work at all; yet few indeed are the Magicians that have known of it, and far fewer They that have beheld its bril- liance! The Temple and all that is in it must be destroyed again and again before it is worthy to receive that Light. Hence it so often seems that the only advice that any master can give to any pupil is to destroy the Temple. Whatever yoi/ have and whate^^er you are are veils before that Light. Yet in so great a matter all advice is vain. There is no master so great that he can see clearly the whole character of any pupi…
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…mbination. This perfect Oil is most penetrating and subtle. Gradually it will spread itself, a glistening film, over every object in the Temple. Each of these objects will then flame in the light of the Lamp. This Oil is like that which was in the widow's cruse : it renews and multiplies itself miraculously; its perfume fills the whole Temple; it is the soul of which the grosser perfume is the body.
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…ohammedan word Fakir. Yoni. The Dyad, or Female Principle. 6*6^Lingam. Zohar. Splenilour, a collection of books on the Qabalah. See "The Temple of Solomon the Kin.£(," Equinox V.
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…t Moses saw, the image of the Most High. This Lamp hangeth above the Altar, it hath no support from below; its light illumines the whole Temple, yet upon it are cast no shadows, no reflections. It cannot be touched, it cannot be extinguished, in no way can it change; for it is utterly apart from all those things which
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…t which consecrates him to the performance of the Great Work; and such is its efficacy that it also consecrates all the furniture of the Temple and the instruments thereof. It is also the grace or chrism ; for this aspiration is not ambition ; it is a quality bestowed from above. For this reason the Magician will anoint first the top of his head before proceeding to consecrate the lower centres in their turn. This oil is of a pure golden colour; and when placed upon the skin it should burn and thrill through the body with an intensity as of fir…
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…Osiris. See Equinox III. Babalon., Our Lady. 5tv Equinox V, The Vision and the \'oice, 14th Aethyr. Babe of the Abyss. See Equinox VIII, Temple of Solomon. Bhagavadij^ita. Sacred Hymn of India, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold in the "Song Celestial." Bi7iah. Understanding, the 3rd "emanation"' of the Absolute. Caditceus. The Wand of Mercury. See Equinox II and III. 175
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…e knife, or the fire, or the oil, he might miss tending just that one flower which was to be NEMO after him! 1 NEMO is the Master of the Temple, whose task it is to develop the beginner. See Liber CDXVIII, Aethyr XIII.
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…e structuralization of knowledge. All impressions are disconnected, as the Babe of the Abyss is so terribly aware; and the Master of the Temple must sit for 106 seasons in the City of the Pyramids because this coordination is a tremendous task. There is nothing [)articularly occult in this doctrine concerning know- ledge and understanding. A looking-glass receives all impressions but coordinates none. The savage has none but the most simple associations of ideas. Even the ordinary civilized man goes very little further. All advance in thought i…
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i67 In this smoke illusions arise. We sought the light, and behold the Temple is darkened! In the darkness this smoke seems to take strange shapes, and we may hear the crying of beasts. The thicker the smoke, the darker grows tlie Universe. Wc gasp and tremble, beholding what foul and unsubstantial things we have evoked! Yet we cannot do without the Incense! Unless our aspiration took form it could not influence form. This also is the niyster)- of in- carnation. This Incense is based upon Gum Olibanum, the sacrifice of the human will of the hea…
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…ch we find opposing our real Will, that Will itself will grow naturally with greater freedom. But it is not only necessary to purify the temple itself and consecrate it; invocations must be made. Hence it is neces- sary to be constantly doing things of a positive, not merely of a negative- nature, to affirm that Will.
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…lm and firm correctness abandon the Great Work itself; for this is the last and greatest projection of the Alchemist." The Master of the Temple has crossed the Abyss, has entered the Palace of the King's Daughter; he has only to utter one word, and all ' Liber LXI, the book given to those who wish to become Probationers of A.-. A...
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… rooted out before Understanding can be attained. There is an apparent contradiction between this attitude and that of the Master of the Temple. What can possibly be more selfish than this interpretation of everything as the dealing of God with the soul? But it is God who is all and not any part; and every "deaHng" must thus be an expansion of the soul, a destruction of its separateness. Every ray of the sun expands the flower. The surface of the water in the Magick Cup is infinite; there is no point different from any other point. ^ Thus, ulti…